NeoMutt for Arch

Support

Both the latest release and the neomutt branch in the repo are supported. Other feature branches may work, but there is no guarantee.

Installation

NeoMutt is available in the [extra] official repository as neomutt and can be installed with pacman.

pacman -S neomutt

If you want to customize the options or use unmerged features, retrieve the PKGBUILD via git and edit it.

git clone git@gitlab.archlinux.org:archlinux/packaging/packages/neomutt.git
cd neomutt

The sections of interest are:

• build: you can change the compile options after ./configure. In particular, this is where you have to add the cache backend you want to use if you want something else than the default.
• source: you can change the #branch=neomutt and replace neomutt with the branch you want to use. This is only for the neomutt-git package in the AUR.

Update

Neomutt can be updated together with other packages in the repositories.

pacman -Syu

If the package in the Arch Linux repositories is outdated, first ensure your mirrors are up-to-date:

pacman -S reflector
reflector --verbose --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

If this did not help, check the version on the packages website and flag the package out-of-date if required. Note that a package should only be flagged if a newer stable release is available.

Removal

To remove NeoMutt along with any dependencies that will be orphaned use the following command:

pacman -Rsc neomutt

Debugging

Arch Linux does not have separate -dbg packages. In order to debug neomutt, you must first compile with debug symbols. Edit the PKGBUILD adding the following:

options=(debug !strip)

Build and install the new package which contains debug symbols.

makepkg -si

Now you can follow the guide for debugging NeoMutt.